Honors,
Awards, and Personal Grants:

Advanced Investigator Research Grant of ca 2.4
Million Euro, awarded by European Research Council, July 2013.

Dacry
Distinguished Lecturer 2012,
Selected by US National Ground Water
Association. Lecture titles: Capillarity in porous media on micro-
and macro-scale, revisited; and Transport of viruses in
partially-saturated soil and groundwater. Invited lectures given
at 55 places around the world
(http://www.geo.uu.nl/hydrogeology/news/Darcy%20Lectures%202012%20(Majid).pdf).

Computational Modelling of Transport of Reactive
Nanoparticles and Contaminants (Part of the project Taking
nanotechnological remediation processes from lab scale to end user
applications for the restoration of a clean environment, Coordinated by
VEGAS, Stuttgart). Commissioned by European Commission Directorate
General for Research and Innovation; Leader of workpackage Modelling on
behalf of Deltares. February 2013 - February 2017; Deltares budget ca
400 k€.

Pore-network modeling of flow and transport in complex
porous media (Part of STW project Engineering of bio-based substrates on
buildings and infrastructure as a basis for natural protection;
Coordinated by Prof. T. Heimovaara of TU Delft). Commissioned by The
Technology Foundation (STW);
Utrecht University; January 2011 - January 2015; total UU budget: ca.
204 kEuro.

Large-Scale
tank experiment on biodegradatin of LNAPL under variable groundwater
stage. Commissioned by the KAUST Center-in-Development for Soil, Water
and Coastal Resources (SOWACOR); November 2008 – April 2010.

Physically-based
theory of two-phase flow in porous media including fluid-fluid
interfacial area. Commissioned by The
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO/ALW); Utrecht
University; May 2008 - April 2012; total budget: ca. 230 kEuro.

Upscaling micro-heterogeneities in
two-phase flow in porous media.Commissioned by The Utrecht Center for Geosciences
(UCG), July 2004-June 2008, total budget 195000 Euro.

Measuring quantitative data on multifluid flow in
porous media by a fully automated dual-energy gamma radiation system.
Commissioned by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
(NWO/ALW); Delft University of Technology; February 2003 - July 2005;
total budget: ca. 153,000 Euro.

Multiphase flow and enhanced biodegradation of dense
non-aqueous phase liquids; Commissioned by The Netherlands Organization
for Scientific Research (NWO/ALW); Delft University of Technology and
later Utrecht University; January 2001 - February 2008; Total budget:
ca. 900,000 Guilders.

Characterization of subsurface heterogeneity:
Integration of soft and hard information using multi-dimensional Coupled
Markov Chain approach. Commissioned by The Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research (NWO/ALW); Delft University of Technology and later
Utrecht University; July 2002 - July 2006; Total budget: ca. 142,000
Euro.

Development of a code for modeling NAPL weathering in
soil and groundwater; Commissioned by Centre for Soil Quality Management
and Knowledge Transfer (SKB); Delft University of Technology; June 2001
- April 2003; Total budget: ca. 1.17 million Guilders (TUDelft budget
196000 Guilders).

Upscaling micro-heterogeneities in two phase flow in
porous media: Theory and experiments; Commissioned by The Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO/ALW); Delft University of
Technology; January 2001 - December 2003; Total budget: ca. 650,000
Guilders.

Upscaling Flow and Transport Processes in Porous
Media (Research program consisting of three projects); Commissioned by:
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO/ALW); Delft
University of Technology; February 1999 - January 2004; Total budget:
ca. 1.5 million Guilders (Program coordinator).

Pore-to-Core Scale-up Studies of the Transport
Properties of Organic Pollutants with Natural Attenuation; Commissioned
by: European Commission; Environment and Climate Research Program
(DGXII); Delft University of Technology; November 1997 October
2000; Total budget: 206,000 Euro (EU contribution to TUDelft 103,000
Euro).

Radio-nuclide Contamination of Soil and Groundwater
at the Lake Karachai Waste Disposal Site (Russia) and the Chernobyl
Accident Site (Ukraine): Field Analysis and Modeling Study Commissioned
by: European Commission; INCO-Copernicus Research Program (DGXII); Delft
University of Technology; April 1997 - March 2000; Total budget: 110,000
Euro (EU contribution to TUDelft 55,000 Euro).

Paleo-hydrological Study of the Mol Site (Belgium);
Commissioned by: European Commission; Nuclear Waste Research Program
(DGXII); Delft University of Technology; January 1997 - September 2000;
Total budget: 400,000 Euro (EU contribution to TUDelft 103,000 Euro)

International Model Validation Study (INTRAVAL);
Commissioned by: Ministry of Economic Affairs of The Netherlands;
National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM),
The Netherlands; September 1987 - August 1993; Total budget: 300,000
guilders.

Havik,Jasper, The fate and transport of nutrients in shallow groundwater and
soil of an urban slum area in the city of Kampala, Uganda (research carried
out in Uganda), June 2012 (co-advisors: Dr. J.W.A. Foppen and drs. P. Nyenje,
UNESCO-IHE)

Ebbers,Benjamin, Multicomponent Transport of Contaminants Released into the
Environment following the Application of Phosphogypsum, August 2011
(co-advisors: Prof. Rien van Genuchten and Dr. Diedrick Jacques, SCK-Mol,
Belgium)

Eeman, Sara, Witnessing Wetness,
spatial and temporal variation of soil water content in the Savutalele
Catchment, Fiji (research
carried out in Fiji), Delft University of
Technology, April 2004 (co-advisor).

Plug, Willem-Jan, Measurements of capillary pressure and electric
permittivity of gas–water systems in porous media at elevated pressures;
Application to geological storage of CO2 in aquifers and wetting
behavior in coal, Delft University of Technology, October 2007.

Membership
of International Committees:

Member of Fellows Committee of the Hydrology Section
of American Geophysical Union (2005-2007, 2013-2014)

Member of the Darcy Lecture Task Force, Commissioned
by National Groundwater Association (NGWA) (2013-2015)

Founding Member and Managing Director of International Society for Porous Media (InterPore)
(since 2008).

Member ofInternational Board of
Advisors, Journal of
Hydrologic Engineering, American
Society of Civil Engineering (since 2004)

Member of Steering Committee of the Best in Science
Research Project: Assessing the Risk of Organic Contaminants at Off-Site
Receptors. University of Western Ontario and Ministry of the
Environment of Canada (2010-2012)

Member of Publication Committee of the Hydrology
Section of American Geophysical Union (1999-2001)

Membership of National Committees:

Evaluation Committee of ALW Open Research Program,
Earth and Life Sciences Area, Commissioned by Netherlands Organization
for Scientific Research (NWO), member, 2014.

Preparation Committee for ALW Top Sector Water
Program with the theme License to Operate, Earth and Life Sciences Area,
Commissioned by Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO),
member, 2014.

Program Committee of the STW research program
BioGeoCivil, member, 2010.

Technical
Reviewer for Organizations:

Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic, Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO);NATO
Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division;Gordon
Research Conferences; U.S. National Science Foundation;American Chemical Society; German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific
Research and Development, The New Eurasia Foundation of the Russian
Federation.

Organized
Conferences or Workshops:

Session
on “Complexities of Flow and Transport in Porous Media across Diverse
Disciplines” during the Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union, San Francisco,
15-19 December 2014, (Co-convener).

Session
on “From Geoscience to Industrial Applications: Frontiers of Flow and
Transport in Porous Media” held during the Fall Meeting of American
Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 9-3 December 2013, (Co-convener).

Session
on “Effective stress principle in multi-phase systems” held during the
Fifth InterPore Conference and Annual Meeting, Prague, May 21-24, 2013
(Co-convener).

Session on “Pore-scale modelling and
visualization” held during the Second InterPore Conference and Annual
Meeting, College Station, Texas, March 14 - 17, 2010 (convener).

Session on “Flow and Transport in
Complex Porous Media” held during the Fall Meeting of American
Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 14-18 December 2009, (Co-convener).

Session on “Pore-scale modelling of
two-phase flow” held during the First International Conference on
“Challenges of Porous Media”, Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 11 – 14,
2009 (convener).

Session on “Flow and Transport in
Complex Porous Media” held during the Fall Meeting of American
Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 15-19 December 2008, (Co-convener).

Session on “Multiphase Flow and
Transport Modeling on Different Scales” held during The XVII
International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources
(CMWR 2008) , San Francisco, 6-10 July 2008, (Co-convener).

Session on “Pore-Scale Modelling and
Imaging of Multiphase Flow, Solute Transport and Bio/geo/chemical
Processes in Porous Media” held during the Fall Meeting of American
Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 10-14 December 2007, (Co-convener).

Session on “Multi-Physics Modeling
for Multi-Phase Flow in Porous Media at Multiple Scales” held during the
Spring Meeting of American Geophysical Union, Acapulco, Mexico, 22–25
May 2007, (Co-convener).

Users’ Workshop on HYDRUS, Modelling
of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in the Vadose Zone and
Groundwater
Utrecht University, 19 October 2005 (chair).

International
Short Courses:

·Short Course on “Pore-scale
modelling of flow and transport in porous media”, King Abdollah University of
Science and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 04-10 November 2014
(co-organizer and lecturer).

Short
Course on “Theories of flow and transport in porous media; Upscaling from
the molecular scale to the REV scale”, King Abdollah University of
Science and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 08-16 September 2013
(co-organizer and lecturer).

Winter School on “Research Tools for Evaluating Availability and Safety
of Surface Water and Groundwater,” Bangalore, India,
5-10 February 2012, (co-organizer
and lecturer).

Summer School on “Upscaling and
modeling of reactive transport in partially-saturated porous media,”
Utrecht, 02-09 July 2010, (co-organizer and lecturer).

Summer
School on “Role of Interfacial Area in Two-Phase Flow and Transport in
Porous Media: Theory, Experiment, Modelling,” Utrecht, 19-24 July 2009,
(co-organizer and lecturer).

Advanced
Numerical Modeling of Flow and Transport in Soils and Aquifers (ANMFT),
University of Sienna, Italy, 07-18 April 2008 (lecturer)

Summer
School on Upscaling and modelling of coupled transport processes in the
subsurface, Utrecht University, 14 - 25 August 2006 (co-organizer and
lecturer).

Short
Course on In-Situ Remediation and Treatment Technologies, Utrecht
University, 18-20 April 2006 (co-organizer and lecturer).

Short Course on HYDRUS; Modelling of
Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in the Vadose Zone and Groundwater,
Utrecht University,17 and 18 October, 2005 (co-organizer).

Summer school on the “Development,
protection, management and sequestration of subsurface fluids
(flow and transport in porous and fractured media)” Institut d'Etudes
Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica, France, July 26th to August 5th 2005
(lecturer)

Third International Conference on
Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry,
Tuscany, Italy, June 20-24, 2010 (member of International Organizing
Committee).

Second International Conference and
Annual Meeting of InterPore, College Station, Texas, March 14-17, 2010
(member of Organizing Committee).

International Conference on
“Frontiers in Shallow Subsurface Technology (FSST 2010)”, Delft, The
Netherlands, 20-22 January 2010 (member of Scientific Committee).

International Conference on
“Non-linearities and Upscaling in Porous Media”, Stuttgart, Germany, 5-7
October 2009 (member of Organizing Committee).

“The Four Elements; A System Earth Modelling
Symposium”, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, April 28, 2009
(member of Organizing Committee).

First International Conference on
“Challenges of Porous Media”, Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 11 – 14,
2009 (member of Organizing Committee).

HydroPredict’2008; International
Conference on Predictions for Hydrology, Ecology and Water Resources
Management: Using Data and Models to Benefit Society, Prague,
15-18 September 2008 (member of Scientific Advisory Committee).

Second International Conference on
Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry,
Kauai, Hawaii, June 18-22, 2007 (member of International Organizing
Committee).

Second International Conference on
Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils, Weimar, Germany, 7-9 March 2007 (member
of Technical Committee).

Gordon Research Conference on Flow
and Transport in Permeable Media; New Hampshire, US, 30 July -04 August
2006 (member of Organizing Committee).

Fifth International Conference on Calibration
and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling (ModelCARE'2005), 6-9 June
2005, The Hague (Scheveningen), The Netherlands (member of Scientific
Advisory Committee).

Meeting the
Media:

DUB,
Utrecht University Online Newspaper, title: “Hoogleraar maakte
prestigieuze reis rond de wereld in 80 lezingen” (The professor travels
around the world in 80 lectures)”, Monday 10 December 2012. See
www.is.gd/j372FR.

DUB,
Utrecht University Online Newspaper, title: “Qanat: A tunnel to
the groundwater”, Monday 17 May 2010. See www.is.gd/otpTCs.

BBC
Radio, Persian Service, “Jame Jahan Nama” Program, Recorded telephone
interview about Dutch government decision to put restrictions on
admission of Iranian students to Dutch universities; Broadcasted on
January 18, 2008 at 16:45 GMT.

Delta,
Weekly Newspaper of Delft University of Technology, News item and
interview: “Hoogleraar vertrekt met onderzoeksgroep naar Utrecht”
(Professor leaves together with his research group to Utrecht), 15
January 2004, no. 2, pp. 3.

Invited
talks in International Meetings

“Applications of two-phase flow to
industrial porous media; micro-scale experiments and modelling”,
International workshop on "Interfaces and their role in
displacement and transport in unsaturated porous media", March
10-12, 2015, Potsdam, Germany (Keynote speaker).

“Pore-scale
modeling and micro-model experiments for the study of two-phase flow in
porous media”, International Conference on Application of Porous Media,
August 26-28, 2013, Cluj, Romania (Keynote speaker).

“A
horizontal reactive permeable barrier to capture fumes rising up to the
soil surface from groundwater plumes”, International Conference on
Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics (from theoretical and
experimental research to practical applications, July 1-3 2013, Torino,
Italy (Keynote speaker).

“Non-equilibrium
capillarity effect at different scales”, Minisymposium on problems
related to porous media undergoing changes at the pore scale, during the
SIAM Conference on Geosciences, Padova, Italy, June 17-20, 2013 (Invited
speaker).

“Integrated
pore-scale modeling and micro-model experiments for the study of
two-phase flow and colloid transport”, International Conference on
Advances and Challenges in Porous Media research (ACPM), 26-28 April
2013, Sousse, Tunisia (Keynote speaker). Postponed.

“Capillarity
in Porous Media, on Micro- and Macroscale, Revisited”, XIX International
Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2012),
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, June 17-21, 2012
(plenary speaker).

“Similarity
solutions for moisture redistribution, including the role of fluid-fluid
interfacial area”, Mathematics of Porous Media, An International
Conference in honour of the 60th birthday of Professor C. J. (Hans) van
Duijn, Split, Croatia, June 13-15, 2011 (keynote speaker).

“Applications
of the theory of mixtures in soil physics; including fundamental
contributions of P.A.C. Raats,” Porous Media Physics and Mathematics; Symposium
in honor of Pieter Raats, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 31 May
2011 (invited speaker).

“Non-equilibrium
capillarity effect; there is no dynamic capillary pressure” NUPUS
Workshop on “Dynamic effects in the capillary pressure” Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands, 17 July 2009 (invited
speaker).

“Multiphase
flow in industrial systems” at the Workshop on “Modelling and Simulation
of PEM Fuel Cells”, Berlin, September 18-20, 2006.

“Flow
and transport in industrial porous media” at the “Boussinesq Lecture
2006”, Amsterdam, September 1, 2006.

“New
Model of Two-phase Flow in Porous Media Including Dynamic Capillary
Pressure Effects,” at the CASA Porous Media day in the honour of Prof.
Mary F. Wheeler, Centre for Analysis, Scientific Computing and
Applications (CASA) of Eindhoven University of Technology, April 27,
2006.

“Upscaling
flow and transport theories from core to field scale,” at the
International Workshop on Multi-Scale Modelling of Flow and Transport in
Porous Media, Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Switzerland, April
7–12, 2006.

“Multiphase
flow in deformable porous media,” at the Workshop on Model Concepts for
Fluid-Fluid Interactions: From Phenomenological Concepts to the Theory
of Porous Media, Stuttgart University, March 20-22, 2006

“Unsaturated
transport of viruses,” at the International Workshop on Subsurface
transport of microorganisms and other colloids, RIVM, Bilthoven, The
Netherlands, March 16, 2006.

“Advances
in pore-scale network modelling of flow and transport in porous media,”
at the 7th "Journees d'Etude sur les Milieux Poreux" Bordeaux,
France, October 26-27, 2005. “Definition of effective parameters in
upscaling theories,” at the Workshop on Advances in Unsaturated Zone
Modelling, Czech Technical University in Prague, 4-6 May 2005.

"How
effective are effective parameters?", at the session on “Effective
processes and parameter identification in the unsaturated zone”, General
Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna, Austria
24-29 April, 2005.

"The
myth of capillary pressure and the reality of fluids' pressures",
at the Porous Media Workshop, Princeton University, October 28-29, 2004

"Recent
Advances in Multi-Phase Flow in Porous Media" at the Conference
"Actual problems in mathematics and mechanics," August 24-26,
2004, Kazan, Russia.

"Physical
basis of dynamic capillary pressure effects in two-phase flow" at
the Minisymposium entitled "Dynamic Capillary Pressure Effects in
Multi-Phase Flow in Porous Media" during the 13-th Conference on
Mathematics for Industry (ECMI), 21-25 June 2004, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands.

"Laboratory
experiments and simulations on the significance of non-equilibrium
effect in the capillary pressure-saturation relationship." at the
International Conference "From experimental evidence towards
numerical modelling of unsaturated soils" Weimar, Germany 18-19
September 2003.

"Dynamic
effect in the capillary pressure-saturation relationship and its impacts
on unsaturated flow." at the International Conference on Soil and
Groundwater Contamination and Cleanup in Arid Countries, Muscat, Oman,
20-24 January 2003.

"Dynamic
effect in the capillary pressure-saturation relationship and its impacts
on unsaturated flow" at the Workshop on Multiscale Modeling of
Environmental Systems at Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences
Institute (SAMSI) of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, US, 2-7 February 2003.

"A
new framework for watershed modelling: from microscale to watershed
scale; The premises of the REW approach" at the Workshop on Scaling
in Hydrology, Vienna, 7-8 June 2001.

"Removal
of bacteriophages by soil passage; theory, laboratory and field
experiments" at the Gordon Research Conference on Flow and
Transport in Permeable Media; New Hampshire, US, 6-11 August 2000.

"Recent
advances in development of dynamic pore-scale network models for
two-phase flow in porous media" at the Second International
Symposium on Computer Methods for Engineering in Porous Media; Besancon,
France, 10-13 July 2000.

"Use
of bacteriophages as tracers for the study of removal of viruses,"
at: Tracers and Modeling in Hydrogeology (TRAM'2000), Liege, Belgium,
23-26 May 2000.

"An
overview of modelling removal of viruses by soil passage" at the
International Conference on Future Groundwater Resources at Risk;
Changchun, China, 12-16 July 1998.

"Role
of interfaces in two-phase flow in porous media" at the
International Workshop on Interfacial Effects and Multiphase Flow;
Delft, 2-3 November 1995.

"Disposal
of radioactive waste in geological formations: A challenge in
geohydrological modelling" at the Conference on Groundwater
Quality: Remediation and Protection, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-18 May
1995.

"Non-Fickian
dispersion in porous media" at the International Symposium "de
Josseling de Jong 80 Jaar" Delft, 12-14 April 1995.

"Paradoxes
and realities in unsaturated flow theories" at the International
Workshop on Nonlinear Flow Problems in Porous Media; Delft, 28-30
September 1993.

"A
new theory of moisture transport in unsaturated zone", at the SIAM
Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Geosciences,
Houston, May 1993.

"Theoretical
and numerical studies of unsaturated flow in porous media", at the
Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Session on
Foundational Theories for Mixtures, Suspensions and Porous Media, San
Diego, 14-16 September 1992.

"Macroscopic
theories for thermodynamics of multiphase flow in porous media", at
the 13th IMACS World Congress in Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Session on Multiscale Transport in Porous Media, Dublin, 22-26 July
1991.

"Macroscopic
theories for thermodynamics of multiphase systems including interphase
boundaries" at the Essener Mechanik Seminar, Essen, 22 January
1991.

"Conservation
equations for high concentration solute transport" at the IGWMC
Expert Meeting on Groundwater Modelling, Delft, 14-16 September 1988.

Qin, Chaozhong and S.M.Hassanizadeh, “A
New Approach to Modelling Water Flooding in a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel
Cell”, Accepted for
publication in International Journal
of Hydrogen Energy, January 2015.

Pop, I.S. C.J. van Duijn, J.
Niessner, and S.M. Hassanizadeh, “Horizontal redistribution of
fluids in a porous medium: The role of interfacial area in modeling
hysteresis", Advances in Water Resources,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.12.006, pp. 383–390, 2009.

Murdoch, A.I. and S.M. Hassanizadeh,
"Macroscale balance relations for bulk, interfacial, and common
line systems in multiphase flows through porous media on the basis of
molecular considerations," International Journal of Multiphase
Flow, 28, pp. 1091-1123, 2002.

Miscellaneous
Publications in Journals:

Hartog, N, Mahmoodlu,
M. G., and Hassanizadeh, S.M.,
"Bias
by theinappropriate use of the
pseudo-first order approach to estimate second-order reaction rate
constants: Reply to the commentary by Tratnyek" Accepted for publication in Science of The Total Environment, September 2014.

Hassanizadeh, S.M.,
"Verification and validation of coupled flow and transport
models" in Validation of Geosphere Flow and Transport
Models(GEOVAL), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Model
Validation, OECD, Paris, 317-327,1991.

Hassanizadeh, S.M.,
"Transport of Radionuclides by concentrated Brine in a Porous
Medium with Micropore-Macropore Structure", RIVM Report No.
728514001, National Institute of Public Health and Environmental
Protection (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands (December 1986).

S.M. Hassanizadeh.,
"Derivation of Generalized Darcy.s Law and Fick.s Law for Transport
of High-concentration Species in Porous Media", RIVM Report No.
840424004, National Institute of Public Health and Environmental
Protection (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands (December 1985).